Irene Lo

Irene Lo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University. She is affiliated with multiple institutes including the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, the Stanford King Center for Global Development, and the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment. Her research focuses on designing fair and efficient market mechanisms for education, environmental, and global development contexts.

• Education:
  • Ph.D. in Operations Research, Columbia University (201?)
  • B.A. in Mathematics, Princeton University
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford Economics Department (supervised by Al Roth)
• Research Interests:
  • Market design for public sector applications
  • Mechanism design for social good
  • Graph theory and combinatorial optimization
  • Socially responsible operations research
• Awards:
  • William T. Grant Scholar (2025)
  • Co-founder of the ACM Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms
• Recent Activities:
  • Launched the Stanford Impact Lab on Equitable Access to Education
  • Co-organized Rising Stars Workshops in Industrial Engineering

Her work spans academic advising across multiple institutions, including co-advising Ph.D. students Andrei Graur and Anushka Murthy. She teaches courses such as Market Design and Resource Allocation in Non-Profit Settings and Introduction to Game Theory.